DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Palus Politicus Ocasio-Cortez does not undertand enemployment

In an interview she states that unemployment is low because people hold two jobs. Never mind the fact that the unemployment calculation does not take into account the number of jobs one has just whether you have a job....It should also be noted that the number of multiple jobs holders is at its lowest point since 1994.

Kudos to the Boston University for the high level of econ understanding they imparted on her with her Econ Degree.

For the English Nazis on the board did you catch her improper subject/verb agreement....the numbers/is as opposed to the the numbers/are....

She is just a rookie that has not been elected (even though it is not in doubt)...instead of putting herself in the limelight she needs to learn a thing or two...I know the usual suspects will equate her lack of understanding to that of Trump....but arguing unemployment like she did is not even on the same level because it was such a basic error. Now you have to question everything she knows or says.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/33167/watch-ocasio-cortez-explains-unemployment-melts-james-barrett

The only research that says this doesn't count the gig economy as employment.

While she was hyperbolic and wrong, the unemployment rate was not the point of the discussion. The point was that economic indicators like GDP an unemployment don't tell how well people are doing.


And finally an AOC thread!

Is enemployment a situation where the available jobs are akin to getting an enema?

you just dont undertand

She doesn't understand a lot of things, but hey, in her world there is a lot of free stuff.

We are talking about a person who believes that Socialism will work. Really that's all that needs to be said.


My cousin is like her and believes that "the people who like to work will continue to work" under communism. I don't even know how to communicate with stupid like that.

Have you considered a Jordan Peterson YouTube video?

She doesn't really understand economics. She also doesn't understand geopolitics. This is astonishing for someone with a double degree in economics and international relations.

She is young, a fresh face, and articulate. For many areas, that's enough.

yea, like being old, white, and racist seems to be perfectly fine to get your vote.

Who did I vote for that met that criteria?

Not even sure why you respond to that garbage.

how about half the republican party you keep riding jocks over.

I haven't voted for most of "them".

I voted for Kasich, though I now kind of regret it. (though the Dems ran horrible candidates) I did vote for Portman, more because the other candidate was Strickland, who was horrible as Governor of Ohio. There was no real Republican candidate for Congress in my district. I suppose that I might have voted for some others in state elections, but I have tried to look at candidates individually, as opposed to their Party.

Are these candidates racist? If so, in what way.

the people you support, the views they have, the way the GOP has historically treated minorities the last 40 or so years.

i've read your post throughout this threads, and quite honestly i regret ever donating to your church. if your rhetoric on this board remotely matches the sermons or advice you give to the people who attend, then we're in a world of hurt.

i mean damn. you literally go OUT of your way to be completely oblivious to how the GOP has conducted themselves, especially the last 10 years. increased in rhetoric supporting the military industrial complex, constant gerrymandering to suppress minority votes in order to win house seats, catering to the alt right, and support of a blatantly racist president.

and the only thing you can do is go "man, i just refuse to believe the gop has turned into this".

but that isn't just saying it. you ACTUALLY believe that. you actually refuse to believe those FACTS.

you and people like you are more of a danger to this country than the actual racist, because you willingly stay blind that way you dont have to address the problems, and you use your ignorance as a way to never vote for people to change the situations our society is in. why? because you dont believe its happening in your party to begin with.

but let one the dems be in support of the LBGT community, here comes your ass, weaponizing the bible.

yes, you weaponize the bible.

i support Ocasio-Cortez. she might be rough around the edges, but atleast she's authentic and not fake, like half the people you tend to vote for.

you constantly whine about your physical state, yet stay voting for people hellbent on making your life worse.

the epitome of stupidity.

My physical state is my matter. I do get Social Security, and I have learned to live on it. I am also doing everything I can to get back to being able to hold a job.

I don't see how the GOP is "hellbent on making my life worse". I have more than many people in the world do.

I also look at the economy, and people have jobs, there are tons of jobs that need qualifies people to fill them, and the administration just announced a public/private program that will help people get real job skills, and jobs that pay well.

Unemployment, including among Black people, is at historic lows. Unemployment rose to 4% in this last quarter, mainly because more people entered and re-entered the workforce.

The economic growth has taken place despite the Fed raising rates, from almost 0%, to 1.7% so far. This would typically be seen as inflationary and as a growth deterrent, but we were at 0% (or darn close to it) that there was no way to use monetary policy to try to boost the economy. Domestic investment is up. There are a lot of good things going on that it makes Trump's asinine bluster somewhat easier to tolerate.

Trump's opponents also push me more towards him. Man, so many on the left deride hate, while being extremely hateful. I hear nothing of substance from the left, just "impeach Trump", "Trump is Putin's puppet", and other idiotic statements.

Trump was about the most imperfect candidate for President I can imagine. I couldn't pull the lever for him, but a lot of Evangelicals did. Why? (GM was my choice);) Because despite being inauthentic in his profession of faith, he promised to protect Christians' right to exercise their faith. He also promised to appoint judges and justices who are Constitutionalists. He has done so. I shudder to think about what the Supreme Court would look like if Clinton had won.

None of this is about race.

As far as 'weaponizing the Bible", that's wrong. I don't want to hurt people, I want them to come to Christ, so they can be saved. Jesus said that we have to repent of our sins, which means to turn from them, to leave them behind, to make a conscious decision to stop doing the sinful things we do. Do we fail? Yes. However, we should not be celebrating our sin. We should not be saying that "everyone does it", or make other excuses. We should not tell people that their sin is "OK", or "just a choice". It is a choice, but it is one that could have eternal consequences. Paul (and other Apostles) said, in no uncertain terms, to keep from sexual sin. Jesus said that marriage is between 1 man and 1 woman, becoming one flesh, for life. That does pretty clearly define it.

God will forgive anyone who puts their trust in Jesus, accepts Him as Lord and Savior, and repents of their sins. It's not "well, I'll accept your salvation, God, but I am going to do whatever I want." That's not repentance. In fact, making it up as we go along, saying that anything and everything is "just fine", is creating our own god, just like many, including Israel, did throughout the Old Testament. One of the specific items the Apostles of Christ agreed upon, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, was to stay away from sexual sin. It's clear as day. Of course, it goes against much of what goes on these days, so people try to twist things to make their sins seem just fine. That is not repentance, it is idolatry. I shouldn't have to, but since I know where you'll go with this, this is not just homosexuality. It is premarital sex, extramarital sex, and any sex outside the marriage covenant as defined by Jesus Christ. This is just one of the Commandments we violate with impunity these days. Pointing this out is not weaponizing anything. It is trying, desperately, to get people to come to repentance, and salvation. It is, or at least should be, an act of love. (and I get that some people act hatefully towards gays, and that is not what God wants. Hate is also a sin) We should help people come to Christ because we were once lost, and are now saved .... and we want the same for others. Many, especially today, will refuse to turn to Christ, because they love their sin more than anything else. We should not be encouraging people to sin, rushing headlong into damnation. People make their own decisions, and all actions we take have consequences, either good or bad, and temporal and/or eternal.

Jesus spoke of this, in John 3:16-20,

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

We all sin. The only difference is whether or not we come to Jesus, in repentance of our sins, or we do not. The specific sin does not matter. I know that you do not want to hear the Word, but you brought it up, so I keep praying that the Lord will convict your conscience, and you will turn to Him.

you get SS? how old are you?



they keep trying to enact policies that will not only make healthcare and drug cost more expensive for you, but millions of other people.

think about all your problems. now think about all those GOP people who had no problem with getting rid of the pre-existing mandates in the ACA.

if you thought helthcare cost was bad now, then you'd have a heart attack if we had the prices if the ACA WASNT enacted.

again, you keep voting for your own demise. i simply do not understand it whatsoever.



a trend not started under the GOP. you're only proving my point about how oblivious you are.



a trend not started under the GOP. you're only proving my point about how oblivious you are.



is that the best defense you have for Trump's stupidity? good god man...



you know what this part reminds me off? the people who go "the hate trump gets makes me what to support him even more"

thats such a stupid comment. thats like saying "the hate hitler got makes me what to support him even more".

the hate suddam got makes me what to support and listen to the guy.

ya know, nixon wasn't all that bad, just got treated unfairly by the left.

jeez.....this is getting sad.



so a guy who got sued multiple times for discrimation against blacks, bragged about sexual assault on tape, trashed his female opponents on the debate stage, and got caught having an affair on his third wife with multiple women, one a playboy model, and the other a pornstar, somehow is gonna defend christians?

say that out loud. then im sure you'd understand how ridiculous that sounds to the majority of non trump supporters.



cause you refused to actually address the points i brought up. which is fine, cause we all know why, you're out of your element on that.

and then we're in bible study territory so i stopped reading from that point on....

I keep telling some of my relatives in Kentucky that if not for the Democrats they'd still be using outhouses and have no electricity. That FDR got them to where they are now and they vote against their own best interests. They're oblivious. lmao

republicans and corporations would push for lower wages and indentured servitude if they could get away with it.

and our government would certainly no longer be secular.

here's your defender of christians:

Cohen taped Trump discussing making hush payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal: Sources

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/michael-cohen-...topstories.html

hey YTown, can you show me which chapter in the bible covers married men and hush payments to playboy models? i missed that in my readings.

I find it funny how they elected a man as president who doesn't have a clue then try to mock a Democrat who doesn't have a clue. You can't make this stuff up.

People seem to forget that it took a lot of bloodshed from workers to stop big business from paying wages that forced three people in one household to work just to pay the rent. That worked children in factories for 12 hours a day.

They tell us to learn from history then selectively ignore the parts of history they do not wish to own up to.

anyway, back to the topic.

O-C biggest screw up so far was criticizing israel.

i get it, and i agree with her, but unfortunately in politics, timing is everything. she should've waited until after the elections to say something about it, because obviously the GOP pounced on it.

what sucks though is that people dont get the difference between criticizing jews and criticizing the israeli government. the former is anti-Semitic, but the latter isn't whatsoever. but conservatives how now merged the two together, so now criticizing a government body is now viewed as anti-semitic.